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Traveling around in the medieval was very different to or stat of the art cars but back in the day they have to use horses and carriages.it would have taken longer than a day to get to let’s say Portsmouth to Birmingham it would have taken weeks or even months because of how fast the horses could back then could go than now.

Food was very different to or food because they didn’t have any fast food places like kfc or nandos. What they had to live off to was meat and only meat, but some of their popular meal was meat pie if you were king henry the eighth you could never live without meat pie, but the only thing the poor could a ford was soup because it was very hard to get a proper because you’d have to have gone to university.

Medieval sport was very competitive and dangerous. The sport that everybody new about was jousting, the sports basically starts in a big arena with a cord on one side and the posh on the other side with the king and queen of the kingdom along the centre of the arena was a long wooden line which split the two sides where the two knight on their horses. The only things that they had on them to protect them was armour a shield and their lances.

The medieval has the worst sickness you can get the black plague. The proses starts like this a flea bites a rat then the rat will bit the human and human gets infected. There are side effects which start to form on your body like bobons, this kind of spot starts to grow under your armpit they look black and oily which is very painful for the person how has got it, but the sickness does not stop there your face would become green and you would be furiously vomiting.

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